with Jim Johnson, Norfolk Admirals (AHL) Associate Coach, former Development Coach for the Tampa Bay Lightning; founder of the U-18 P.F. Chang's Tier I Hockey Organization, former Head Coach of PF Chang the AAA U18 team, 13-year NHL playing career
Teach your players to perform essential hockey skills at high speeds in confined areas.
Jim Johnson, a 13-year veteran of the NHL, believes that presenting competitive play in confined areas in practice will have tremendous carry over into game situations. These games promote problem solving, create a fun atmosphere, encourage creativity, simulate game like situations and provides instructional practice time for problem solving.
Johnson shows you 10 confined area games you can easily implement into your practice. Johnson discusses ways to vary the drills to make them adaptable to any team or situation. Each game has a specific skill theme that include passing, puck protection, breakouts, 2-on-2, 3-on-2, transition, defensive zone coverage, low zone play, 4-on-2, competitive goal tending play and reading and reacting. Johnson diagrams and explains each drill to make implementation simple.
Using these games will enable you to simulate game-like, competitive situations in your practices while maximizing touches for your players!
with Bill Beaney, Head Coach, Middlebury College 8X D-III NCAA Champions; and Tim Gerrish, former Union College Head Coach
These competitive hockey games use small groups of players, small areas of ice, and short shifts to create intense, game-like situations and ultimately a high level of play. All of these drills take place inside the blue line and are played cross-ice to create a small ice surface. Coaches Beaney and Gerrish use this chaos with a purpose approach to enhance player skills and improve hockey sense. The games are modified by putting the goals in various positions, using more than one puck, limiting where players are allowed to move, and creating and eliminating rules.
with Shawn Walsh, coaching legend, former University of Maine Head Coach
Shawn Walsh designs and demonstrates a series of highly competitive hockey drills to keep your practices intense and to utilize the full ice surface. The drill work is divided into three segments: flow drills, situational drills, and team drills. Flow drills warm-up your players, develop skills, and develop timing. Situational drills include many of the match-up situations that players will encounter during games. Team drills feature more end-to-end action and thus are great for teaching transition.
with Tim Whitehead, University of Maine Head Coach, 2002 Coach of the Year
Coach Tim Whitehead shares 15 hockey drills with multiple variations designed to let players work alone or with a partner. These drills incorporate basic skill development in the following areas: skating agility, quick starts, speed, passing, puck protection, tight turn protection, balance under duress, pivoting, wall situations, angling and checking, puck handling, puck control, shooting accuracy and hand-eye coordination. Whitehead offers specific drill objectives, clear and thorough instruction, and follows with on-ice demonstrations of each drill. Excellent!
with Tim Whitehead, University of Maine Head Coach, 2002 Coach of the Year
In this creative hockey coaching DVD, Coach Tim Whitehead incorporates essential skill development into fun, competitive team games. The objectives and benefits of the hockey games include: learning quick transition, maximizing movement, improved communication, quicker decision-making, and improved shooting, passing, and defending. Along with team essentials, these games are designed to incorporate behavioral attributes that include individual accountability, attentiveness, and communication. Coach Whitehead includes both full-ice and cross-ice games that are designed to mirror actual game situations. Each game is explained and fully diagramed on a marker board followed by a narrated, on-ice demonstration. Excellent!
with Tim Whitehead, University of Maine Head Coach, 2002 Coach of the Year
In 15 Competitive Shooting Games & Drills, Coach Tim Whitehead incorporates shooting into chaotic, game-like situations through a series of intense (and fun) competitive hockey games. Specific shooting skills included in these games are: wraps and stuffs, corner shots, quick release shots, wrist shots, slap shots and single touch shots. Whitehead builds game-like situations into these drills including: 1-on-1, 2-on-1, 3-on-1, breakaways, wide angles, rebounds, deflections and clearing the front of the net. The games also include other critical skill-related areas: player attentiveness, quick decision making, speed, transition, defense, goalie play, forward play, passing, communication, playing rebounds and deaks. While Whitehead explains the structure, purpose, and benefits to be derived from each of the games, he adds in marker board diagrams and on-ice demonstrations for added emphasis and instruction.
with Tim Whitehead, University of Maine Head Coach, 2002 Coach of the Year
Coach Tim Whitehead shares 15 hockey drills with multiple variations designed to let players work alone or with a partner. These drills incorporate basic skill development in the following areas: skating agility, quick starts, speed, passing, puck protection, tight turn protection, balance under duress, pivoting, wall situations, angling and checking, puck handling, puck control, shooting accuracy and hand-eye coordination. Whitehead offers specific drill objectives, clear and thorough instruction, and follows with on-ice demonstrations of each drill. Excellent!
37 minutes. 2004.
15 Competitive Team Games & Drills
with Tim Whitehead, University of Maine Head Coach, 2002 Coach of the Year
In this creative hockey coaching DVD, Coach Tim Whitehead incorporates essential skill development into fun, competitive team games. The objectives and benefits of the hockey games include: learning quick transition, maximizing movement, improved communication, quicker decision-making, and improved shooting, passing, and defending. Along with team essentials, these games are designed to incorporate behavioral attributes that include individual accountability, attentiveness, and communication. Coach Whitehead includes both full-ice and cross-ice games that are designed to mirror actual game situations. Each game is explained and fully diagramed on a marker board followed by a narrated, on-ice demonstration. Excellent!
36 minutes. 2004.
15 Competitive Shooting Games & Drills
with Tim Whitehead, University of Maine Head Coach, 2002 Coach of the Year
In 15 Competitive Shooting Games & Drills, Coach Tim Whitehead incorporates shooting into chaotic, game-like situations through a series of intense (and fun) competitive hockey games. Specific shooting skills included in these games are: wraps and stuffs, corner shots, quick release shots, wrist shots, slap shots and single touch shots. Whitehead builds game-like situations into these drills including: 1-on-1, 2-on-1, 3-on-1, breakaways, wide angles, rebounds, deflections and clearing the front of the net. The games also include other critical skill-related areas: player attentiveness, quick decision making, speed, transition, defense, goalie play, forward play, passing, communication, playing rebounds and deaks. While Whitehead explains the structure, purpose, and benefits to be derived from each of the games, he adds in marker board diagrams and on-ice demonstrations for added emphasis and instruction.
with Bruce Crowder, former Head Coach, Northeastern University
This tape features competitive cross-ice games, a drill to utilize the corners, and full-ice games. The games are designed to enhance your players passing, skating, conditioning, and scoring. Also, players will get a feel for puck support, transition, puck protection, and will become more familiar with situations they will face during a game. All of these games utilize goalies and a small number of players (4 vs. 4 or less) to increase touches on the puck for each player. These games will encourage your players to think when they're on the ice!
